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A Nu shotfor your computer The medicos are reminding us to get our shots to boost our immune systems for the coming flu season. Those concerned about the health of computers' may soon be prescribing similar action for our machines. During the past few years, IBM researchers have been using a biological model of immune response to design an automatic virus protection mechanism for computers. IBM refers to this as a digital immune system, and says it is "the flrst company to develop an immune system that can detect previously unknown viruses, analyze them, and distribute a cure worldwide, all automatically and within minutes of first discovering new viruses." In a paper entitledBlueprint for a Computer Immune System, which was presented to the Virus Bulletin International Conference in San- Francisco in October 1997, IBM researchers Jeffrey Kephart, Gregory Sorkin, Morton Swimmer, and Steve White explain that we humans (and other vertebrates) have both a general, non-adaptive immune response as well as an adaptive response to spedfic pathogens. They say the key to developing an immune system for computers is to create comparable digital mechanisms. A general immune response in computers would allow them to detect and dealwith viruses. This is the type of capability existing anti-virus programs provide. But it's the work being done- on the adaptive response mechanism that I find most fascinating. In an earlier article written for Scientific American,(entitled "Fighting Computer Viruses" ) the same authors described IBM's prototype active immune system, which comprises a small computer network. When a PC on the network encounters a program that might be infected, it sends it to a special virus analysis computer, which then sends it to a "petri dish" computer containing decoy programs. The system tries to induce the potential virus to infect the decoy programs. If and when it does, the characteristics and structure of the virus can be analyzed, and a prescription formulated. The prescription can then be sent to the infected computer, as well as to others on the network to become a permanent addition to their anti-virus databases. IBM says this immune system will typically recognize a virus and create a prescription in less than five minutes. Because the prescription can be sent out over the network and because it can be incorporated into the anti-virus databases of uninfected computers, this mechanism works as a kind of immunization shot to prevent the virus from spreading.

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will use these in its future anti-virus products, which will be marketed under the Norton AntiVirus brand. IBM, meanwhile, has tumed its anti-virus customer base over to Symantec, and will be promoting or including Norton AntiVirus in IBM products and services. Both Symantecand IBM have been engaging in major anti-virus research activities, Symantec through its Symantec AntiVirus Research Center (SARC) and IBM through its Thomas J. Watson Research Centre. As computers become increasingly connected, the need for a more systemic and automatic response to viruses will also grow. The authors of the papers cited earlier conclude that computer viruses and anti-viruses will continue to evolve together in tit-for-tat pattern, just as our own immune systems must continually adapt to new strains of flu. Applying a biological model to the workings of computer systems seems to be an ongoing preoccupation. Recently the term "self-healing application" has crept into the vernacular. This refers to the ability of some software programs to repair themselves — for if the computer operator happens to delete crucial files or components. And during the past year or so, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has been referring to a "digital nervous system." A system that, according to Microsoft's vision, includes components such as ubiquitous connectivity, universal email, and all-digital information. The person-

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al computer itself is acornerstone of the digital nervous system because its price, performance and flexibility allow all sorts of people to use it for all sorts of purposes.

In general systems analysis there is a constantcross-

fertilization of paradigms. Biology, ecology, engineering, sociology, economics, political science and management science all contribute to each of the other disciplines' conceptualization of the way systems behave and operate. Looking at a computer as a biological system seems to offer more insights than looking at it as, say, a political system. In the case of anti-virus research, it has provided an intriguing approach to virus protection. There's another side to this paradigm borrowing too. When we compare ourselves to our various tools and inventions, we often find ourselves lacking. We are not as strong or as fast asour mechanical tools and can' t see as well as our optical tools. Even where we thought we reigned supreme — in our intellectual and information processing abilities — computers have slowly eroded our self confidence by trouncing us in math, memory ' recall and even chess. It comes assomething of a comfort, then, that when computer sdence wants to make some real breakComputer heal thyself throughs in understanding the way computer systems In mid-May, IBM and Symantec announced that they work, it turns to us humble biological units for inspirawould be joining forces to develop digital immune sys- tion. tems. Under the agreement, Symantec has licensed IBM's immune system technology and its patents (IBM Enjoy the issue has a half-dozen or so patents in this area). Symantec David Tanaka, Editor

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code is in the public domain." That is equivalent to saying that it is an uncopyrighted work, which is blatantly false. The code in Linux is copyrighted by the many people who have contributed to it, [andj may be redistributed only in accordance with a special licence that Sept. 197S, in a SphereCorp. ad. was invented by free software What Sony did invent, was the guru Richard Stallman together in 3.5-inch hard case floppy disk consultation with a team of MacDonald. Congratulation on package, which is now common- lawyers. In a nutshell, this licence the job well done. ly used. allows software to be redistribVera Novak James Knot t, Mississauga uted, even in modified form, and in exchange for any fee the disRewriting history A patent falsehood tributor sees fit, provided that the In his article on removable stor- In your September 1998 article recipient has access to the source age in the October issue of The entitled, "Corel's Quandary: profit code. Computer Paper, Rod Lamirand vs interesting products," Geof Public domain software, on says that Sony invented the flop- Wheelwright claims that "Linux the other hand, can be distrib-

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Adobe Photoshop, Corel PhotoPaint and MetaCreations Cood Web design • Download time estimates are conveniently displayed at the bottom of Painter — show why they are at the top of the heap for photo When cable and/or high-speed modems become the norm, every image as apulldown with 14.4, 28.8, 56.6 Kbps transmission valediting. Web graphic designers' obsession with file size will diminish. ues. At that point, the other three areas of good design — image • Layer interlock toggle allows effects made to one frame/layer to be There are graphics enhancement, GUI control emulation (menus, buttons, drop made to several in lock step and there are Web graphics down images, etc.) and graphic page elements (backgrounds, X What makes Web graphics different from ordinary graphics is lines and borders, banner ads/animations, 3D bulletin boards ~Ah-':.:Ia4 =.-~:: ne'er,.:;: "-:::-)gnaper: tu ;. «aar;: lsa=: -~ the severe size restrictions associated with Web images. 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However, their greater functionality quickly with the RGB (red-green-blue) balance and HSL (hueand/or better image compression has not been enough to saturation-lightness) shift controls. make. these technologies "must-includes" in Microsoft's or Picture Publisher and PhotoPaint have very useful tools Netscape's browsers. Hence, Web graphic designers are left that show before and after adjustments. For sharpening or I <)-g' ,:-' f~~~" o.'».; with thankless image "thinning" chores. smoothing, PhotoPaint and Photoshop have the broadest ~ yg Traditional computer graphic artists and illustrators are range of sharpen and smoothing/blur tools. used to working with files several megabytes (if not tens of .tee% t~, All of the bitmap tools allow several modes of masking for MB) in size. However, a 75KB graphic file takes a full minute to precise color corrections and removal of dust and defects. But In order to see the difference between Adobe Photoshop and download at 14.4Kbps, about 28 seconds at 28.8Kbps, and 15 what many photographers will really appreciate is the lighting Adobe ImageReady, one has to bring up both programs side by seconds at 56.6Kbps. effects possible with Photoshop, PhotoPaint or Picture side and check the menus. Image Ready can be thought of as, Publisher. Having the ability to place three or four different Photoshop Jr. with GIF animations and other Web goodies. types of lights, change their angle, brightness and diffusion Image Ready is distinctly junior to Photoshop; yet I found and do so in seconds not minutes or hours is reniarkable. And most of the tools for masking, layer control, plus brushes and these same bitmap programs help to create Web graphic good- fills such that I rarely had to move back to PhotoShop Sr. ies. I Because all the tools, dialog controls and palettes are being .

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Eye-catching graphics help attract and retain users at Web sites, but Web graphic goodies are things like background textures, borrowed from PhotoShop, users of Macromedia XRes, and graphics are the number-one cul- buttons, menus, page banners —all the graphics that help run other PhotoShop-like program will get up to speed quickly. a site. Many of these goodies are also bitmap graphics and the However, other users may find the interaction between the prits for the long download times object layering, merging and stitching tools available in layer and animation frame controls a bit disconcerting. Also PhotoPaint, Picture Publisher and Photoshop really are ti me ImageReady was the "slushiest" of all the programs for speed savers. Sure you can do these things in specialty programs but of basic operations. But there are a lot of winning features in that scare away users. the precise transparerrcy, merging and color touch up control

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ImageReady, not the least of which'is the price, that will attract Photoshop devotees to this well balanced tool.

polish in no time. With Fractal Painter, users can create a natrupted (and much worse with escalating delays), Web graphic ural painted look of uncanny fidelity. Adobe Photoshop designers are caught in a bind. Eye-catching graphics help However, in the creation of buttons, banner ads and text- Unique and favorite elects or tools: • Layer interlocking allows many (but not all) graphic tasks to be done on linked layers all at once.

users. So trimming the fat in Web images is a major preoccu- arrows, crisp text for over illustrations or buttons and menus • Fresco and Spatter effects rescue alot of grainy imagesandgives them pation. with special bevels, drop shadows, and fill effects is stunning. Continued onpage 22

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Micrograf x Webtricity Unique and favorite effects ur tools: • Tile creation wizard for Web page background images with blends and/or offsets. • Pastel artistic effect creates best smooth-brush image. • Bevel factory: whew, what bevels and borders!

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Cameras that only have an LCD connect their computers to their digital camviewfinder are even worse on batteries than eras quickly, easily, and with high speed. (USB cameras that use the LCD for playback or compatibility is currently spotty, but promises visual confirmation only. Some cameras to grow over the next year). With dropping attempt to get around this by having dedi- prices, they' re bound to gain popularity with cated r e chargeable b a ttery p a c ks. a wide variety of users. Unfortunately, this causes a different probThis month, we asked manufacturers to lem: unless the user invests in more than send us digital cameras for review, and one proprietary battery pack (sometimes requested megapixel cameras where possible. costing $100 each!), the day of photography Of those we received, a couple had resolutions is over as soon as the battery pack runs out that were less than megapixel, but the manuof power. Users who plan to take a lot of pic- facturers either had megapixel versions availtures before heading home would do well to able or on the horizon. Field-testing was invest in extra battery packs, or. in a good done...well, in the field, literally. We took off battery charger with a seemingly absurd the lab coats this month and took a walk number of batteries, The standard camera around the neighborhood, cameras in hand, takes four batteries at a time, so bringing 12 and testedeach camera forease ofuse and picor 16 extra wouldn't be unreasonable for ture quality, in varying conditions. Some of extended shoots. the results are printed in this issue. Delay time between shots: With convenA quick note about the storage media: curtional cameras, you can take pictures as rently, there are two primary methods for quickly as it takes you or the film advance storing-pictures: Flash card, and SmartMedia. motor to wind the film to the next frame. At present, Flash appears to have the jump on Digital'cameras need time to write the capacity, offering cards with up to 48 MB of image to memory, and this can cause a storage, compared to SmartMedia's 16 MB. delay — sometimes quite a lengthy one. SmartMedia, on the other hand, seems to This makes most digital cameras quite have the advantage in price and versatility. poor choices for "action" sequences. Most offer no manual focus option: Just A+o ePhoto 16$0 as some drivers consider driving a car with Suggested retail price: $1,349 an automatic transmission to be little more than steering, many photographers find little joy in simply pointing and shooting. Most digital cameras have autofocus, which can be very limiting. If you want to take a picture of something in the mid-distance, but there are items in the foreground, the auto-focus will likely set the focus for the items in the foreground, ruining the sense of depth. It can be argued that most of the consumerwrient- A Iot of entrants in the digital camera market are longed digital cameras aregeared more to func- time manufacturers OI conventional photography tion than artistic expression. equipment orsupplies.While Agfa isprobably best Auto-focus tends to be quite slow: The known for film and paper, it also has a long history in auto-focus for many of the digital cameras developing equipment and imaging technology. Its is far from speedy, and sometimes doesn' t digital line draws on that history and the BPhoto1680 even accomplish the goal, Where conven- shows Agfa is serious about digital cameras. tional cameras seem to make an attempt at Pros: auto-focus and then go with something • With a true resolution of 1.3 megapixels close (all in the blink of an eye), the same (1,343x972), the quality is already great.

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memory for quick writing of pictures. It also supHewlett-Packard PlaotoSmart C20 ports a Flash card, for additional storage. The top of the AGFA digital camera line, the 1680 is impressive. Because the on-screen infor- • Record mode turns on and off by spinning the lens Street price: $699 cover. mation is so minimal, more time is required to canbe hooked directlyto an Epson learn how to use it than some of the other cam- • The camera printer, bypassing the PC. eras. The versatility of the swivel-mounted lens, and the ability to add lens attachments makes • It comes with four NiMH rechargeable batteries and a recharger, and also takes standard AAs. this a camera to be taken seriously. • The display and controls are user-friendly, • Comes with adapter for Tiffen lenses. I:aslo QV-S000SX Suggested retail price: $800 Cans: • The internal memory is only good for about tive pictures at top resolution, and additional Flash cards One of the biggest players in the printer business, have to be purchasedseparately. Hewlett-Packard is supplementing its photo-oriented The PhotoPC 700 makesa good companion PhotoSmart line of printers and scanners with the C20 for an Epson printer, but is also a nice camera digital camera. on its own. Serious users will probably want to Pres: pick up an additional Flash card to expand the • The camera is ready to take shots by opening the cameras limited storage capacity. The sliding lens cover, and is powered down when the cover is flipped shut. You don't have to worry a lot PhotoPC 7DD is an easy-to-use camera that takes high-quality shots. about settings when you' re in a hurry — just open When you think of Casio, you maythink af calculators the cover and shoot. or sampling keyboards, but the companyalso has a • For a one megapixel camera, the price point is quite line of digital cameras for the consumer market. One Fujifllm INX-700 of its megapixel cameras, the QV-5000SXhas afew Street price: $949 good. • Picture quality for landscape and portrait shots is features that make it stand aut. With a big name in both good. Pros: • The Flash memory for the DV-5000SX is built into cameras and film, it' s Cons: • Patches af solid calar come in a bit blotchy at inevitable that Fujifilm the camera. Because it doesn't have to write images would participate in the times. to removable media, there isn't the samedelay - It doesn't handle closeups very well. digital revolution. between shots that makesmany other cameras Although Fujifilm has a • The on-screen interface is a bit strange: choosing unsuitable for action sequences. • It features a panorama modefor creating landseveral cameras in its the next item on the menuscrolls the items instead digital line, the MX-700 of the "cursor." scapes larger than the lens's field of view, and "mini-movie" mode for creating short action is notable for its quality, • The slightly recessed arrow buttons are a bit awkward to use. sequences. usability, and "shirt• At over 1.2 megapixels {1,280x960), image quality pocket" size. The VhotoSmart C20 camera is a good entry is quite good, Pros: • Picture quality is excellent, with 1,280x1,024 reso- into the digital field. 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Instead ring to determine the mode(play, record, timer, delete, etc.) and an inner tilt-panel for scrolling Koalak Digital Science 220 of specific menu controi buttons, the QV-5000SX around the menu. It has easily one of the bestSuggested retail price: $999 uses other buttons (like the shutter), so users have to look at the screenwhile using thesebuttons. designed on-screen display andmodecontrol conKodak Oloital Science 260 figurations. Suggested retail price: $1,349 the FlashPath floppy The Casio QV-SDDDSX is a nice, compact unit • SmartMedia storage means with a good chunk of memory built right in, disk adapter (not included j can beused to downOne of the best known photography companies in the eliminating the frustrating write-delay that load pictures faster than with a serial connection, worid, and already well-established in the digital camera market, Kodak offers the Digital Science 220 and plagues cameras with removable storage. Both • The rechargeable Lithium lon battery pack lasts the panorama and mini-movie modes add good longer than most AAbatteries. 260 models. Both are armedwith impressive new feavalue to the camera. The lack of intuitiveness of • Considering the features on the unit, the $949 street tures. The major difference between the two seemsta the interface will become less of a problem as price is quite nice. be the resolution and the zoom. the user becomes familiar with the camera. Cons: Pros: What will be an ongoing problems with, • Since the battery pack is a proprietary format, users • Both cameras haveLISB a connection in addition to though, is the battery-life, since it seems to go will need to purchaseadditional packs (at a sugthe serial connection and video out. One of the through batteries more quickly than most of biggest annoyances af digital cameras is the long gested retail price of $79 each) for longer shoots. 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he focus of this month's lab report is on the latest the digital camera industry has to offer. However, you' ll still find. utility in older models that offer lower resolution. Here, we l ook a t t h ree different approaches to digital camera design. Under the "cons" for all of these units would have to be that 640x480 pixels is their maximum resolution. However, if you can live with that, you may find any one of these to be useful additions to your digital toolbox. Ilinolta Dimage V Street price: $599

into areas that the whole cameracan't go. (It also allows the user to shoot from a different angle than the flash.) • Use of SmartMedia for storage allows for quicker transfer to PC, if the floppy disk adapter (not included) is used.

Cons: • There is no optical viewfinder on this camera, so use of the LCDviewfinder exclusively means it goes through batteries fairly quickly. Overall, the quality of this Dimage V doesn' t compare to the newer generation of megapixel cameras. For specialty uses, however, it may come in handy, most notably for closeup work or for getting shots in tight spaces. Mustek VDC-200 Street price: $409

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street price for the Minolta Dimage V by$50. • The on-screen display is relatively intuitive. • There is a quick switch on the front of the camera to adjust the aperture for low-light conditions.

Cons: • The bas icpackage doesn'tincludeany removable storage, although it has 2 MB of memory built into the camera. • The control software for the PC is a bit convoluted, forcing users to jump through a number of hoops to download the pictures into a folder on the hard drive. Users are also required to name each picture. Although more demanding users not consider the VDC-200, it would be a good starter camera for general use. It would be nice to have better resolution, but many will find it hard to argue with the price.

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Pros: • The swivelling lens has a manual zoom controlled by a lever that can be slid all the way to macro mode, • The macro mode on this camera is excellent.

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Sony's Digital Mavica series offers a neat twist that makes even this lower-resolution member of the line worth considering: the FD in the model numbers stands for "floppy disk," which is what the Mavica uses for photo storage. Pros: • Use of a standard floppy disk solves two problems: the cost of removable storage, and the pain of getting pictures from the camera to the PC.Thedisk is simply taken out of the camera and popped into a PC's floppy drive to download the pictures. • The FD-71 has an amazing 10x optical zoom. • The camerahandlescloseupshotsvery well. • A switch on the side allows the user to turn off auto-focus and focus manually using the spinner ring on the front of the lens. • It comes with a rechargeable lithium ion battery, for longer battery life (the viewfinder lists an approximate time remaining for battery life, too). Cons: • The rechargeable battery pack is proprietary, so the user cannot replace it with standard AAswhen it runs out of juice. Those who plan heavy useshould consider investing in an additional battery pack or two (additional packs sell for $89;99 each). • The Mavica, at over 570 g (20 oz.), is a bit on the heavy side. • It has no optical viewfinder. Because of its weight and lack of a swivelling lens, taking shots at strange angles can be awkward. • The LCD viewfinder can be hard to see properly in bright sunlight or in low-light conditions.

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At the very entry point of the megapixel range, the CooIPix 600 is an affordable camera with high-quality pictures and a slim design that wouldn't be too unwieldy in a jacket pocket. The docking station is a nice idea, allowing the user to recharge the camera's batteries and transfer pictures with one simple device.

Where the 600 looked like a traditional camera, the CoolPix 900 is bigger, has better resolution, and with the swivelling lens, looks more obviously digital. Pros: • The 1.3 megapixel resolution (1,280x960) provides great quality output. • The 3x optical zoom is can beenhanced digitally to 6x.

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associated with digital photography. Consider Risk 'i: Obsolescence the typical digital camera available today: it has Obsolescence was a big factor in our agoniz- at least 1,000x1,000 pixel resolution, a built-in ing over this purchase. Every six to eight flash, a motorized zoom lens and a large color months for the past two or three years, digital camera makers have. played leap frog up the resolution and feature set ladder. Hop one was 320x240 pixel resolution cameras with fixed lenses. Hop two brought us 640x480 resolution with flash. By hop three, we had 1,024x768 cameras with zoom lenses. And in the latest hop, we have the choice of digital cameras with 1,600xl,280 resolution, zoom lenses, fl ash and LCD viewers.Wit h each hop, cameras come onto the market in the

LCD for previewing and controlling images. This type of camera eats up four AA batteries in less than a half hour. Even rechargeable NiMH or Lithium Ion batteries are hard pressed to provide an hour of use. And with Lithium Ion batteries, the constant recharging eventually exacts its toll: they have to be replaced after 60 to 100 uses (if you don't lose or misplace them before then). Fortunately,

many of the new megapixel cameras come with AC adapters, which are perfect for stu-

$750 to $1,000 price range (depending on the dio shooting. flight of the loon, of course). So, avoiding the first risk — obsolescencemeans knowing where you are in this techno-

logical leap frog cycle and taking it into account. We purchased our camera at this point in

thecycle forseveralreasons: • The need for Web quality images demands a camera that can shoot at r oughly 700x500 pixels to allow for cropping and other editing. Other photography work (8x10-inch proofs and catalog shots) demands 1,200x1,000 dpi. Any of the new and popular megapixel cameras from Agfa

Adapters are also available that use your

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So if you plan to take fewer than 100 images a month, you may want to stick with a film camera. You can pair it with a scanner construction, which includes lens quality and capable of creating 1,SOO-plus dpi digital image-taking capability. One can quickly see images from slides or negatives for $500 to why film photographers often look with disdain $700, which is roughly half the cost of a at all but the most expensive digital cameras. megapixel camera. (With this option, howEven new pocket 35 mm cameras have ever, you don't have the advantage of viewbetter lenses, shutters and aperture control ing and editing images immediately, and of than most of the megapixel digital cameras course, there remains the cost and time that easily sell for three to five times as involved in processing film.) much. While not yet up to the standards of Conti mred frow page 48

their 35 mm peers, the construction of megapixel camerasis improving. In particular, the quality of lenses is much improved, and the bodies have more ergonomic forms. The Kodak DC220, for example, has a 29-58 mm zoom, and the DC260 has 38.4-115mm zoom (equivalent to a 35 mm film camera). As well, some manual control of the images you take is possible — the more control you have, of course, the more expensive the camera. The. following controls are included on

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fixed-time lapse exposure. • Pi xel quality options: from 640x480 to top megapixel resolutions. • Lo ng exposures: flash off, exposure from O.S to four seconds. • Ex ternal flash: syncs with external flash at several aperture settings. • Focus modes: auto, manual, single spot and multi-spot focus control. • Wh i te balance: settings for auto, daylight, tungsten and fluorescent lighting. • Ma nual settings: both aperture and shutter speeds settings. The Kodak cameras supply all of the above controls, except for complete manual settings. Most of these exposure controls are also available with the Nikon and Agfa digital cameras — which both have more extensive manual controls. ln addition to functionality, cameras like the Kodak DC220 and DC260, the Nikon CoolPix and the Fuji are now made from tougher materials and have better body construction and are much more durable than early digital cameras.

Risit 4: Archival quality of images A test I conducted recently used two nearly identical prints: a 3S mm photo print and an Epson Photo Stylus )nkjet print. Both were exposed to the same bright sunlight for two months. And while both show fading, it is . more marked on the inkjet print where the color actually shifted. Admittedly, exposure to direct sunlight is an exceptional condition; but the results show one of the major archival risks assoriated with digital i

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camera). As one ran quickly see, the more pictures you take, the more attractive digital photography becomes from a cost point of view. If you use 20 rolls of film per year, the cost is already $500 to $600. If you use more, the cost is in the range of the price of a digital camera. Even more important than cost is the ability to check a digital image immediately through the camera's LCD, or a q u ick download to a notebook PC for full-screen

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USB, serial, and infrared connections, but not the PC Card connection — which is $30 extra. Given the convenience of PC Card the following methods: connection, one can only presume it was • serial bus connector, with Twain or Kodak not bundled with the DC220/260 because Access software; of the rarity of desktop computers with PC • USB connector, with Twain or K odak Card slots. Access software; While failure to provide this fell into the • tr ansfer through Infrared ports, with "cons" column in m y d ecision making, Kodak Access software; Kodak included a fifth connection option • or by sliding a memory card into the PC that I felt was a definite "'pro": a video out Card slot on a laptop, or a PC Card adapter connection and cable for viewing images on attached to a desktop PC. Continued f'ron/ pageSO

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any TV with a yellow video-in jack. This gives users three choices of v i ewing images: thumbnails in the LCD screen on the back of the camera; viewing on a PC with image display software; or viewing on a TV screen using the cable and camera to provide links and controls, This is true viewing versatility and convenience. Kodak provides a number of other features as well. Images can be recorded in burst mode as movies, and stored in AVI f ormat. Sound ca n b e r e c orded a n d

attached to either still o r m ovie images (this, however, is a two-step process: taking the picture, then adding the sound clip in review mode — no sound is recorded directly with the image). Perhaps the most intriguing aspect of the Kodak DC220/260 series is the ability to add scripts to the camera. The documentation in the manual is minimal, so users have to go t o t h e K o dak Web site at

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then be opened directly from the PC Card with any image editing software, without having to use any special/proprietary access software. (With the other transfer methods this special downloading or transfer software has to be used, which adds another step in handling digital images.) Finally, not only do digital cameras simplify and speed up accessto your images, they usually come bundled with a number of editing and processing applications. In fact, postimage processing is clearly a digital photography advantage. Effects and processing in the dank, dark wet world of film becomes an unbelievable kaleidoscope of possibilities in the digital world. Creating the Sabatier effect, solarization, or balancing color — which could take hours in a color darkroom — can be done in seconds on a computer. And, if you don't like the results, they can easily be undone. There is no equivalent in the chemical wet world of Undo. True, photo film still provides higher resolution, broader tonal range and gamut, but the new high-resolution digital sensors are fast closing this gap.

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In brief Contiuuei/frau/ page $9 between leading personal information managers (PIMs) and digital cellular phones. In use, FoncSync is said to work with mainstream PC sof'tware applications, including Microsolt Outlook, Lotus Organizer and Symantcc ACT, to allow cellular phone users to accessup to 250 names and phone numbers. A drag-and-drop function allows elearonic business cards F'rom emails, the Internet and PC desktops to be placed directly into the cellular phone's memory — effectively turning digital handsets into electronic address books. Paragon saysthat its sofnvare has been designed to interface using a serial cable link with most major digital handsets. including those from N o kia, E ricsson, Sony and Mitsubishi. http;//www.paragonsoftware.corn

HPC and Palm III product announcements SANTA CLARA, Calif. (NB) — Several firms recently announced products to increase the efficiency of' handhcld PCs (HPCs). Also, 3Com Corp. has joined.SAP Labs to launch an enterprise resource planning (ERP) initiative tii promote H PCs as major rorporatc protluctlvl tv tools.

3Com anilouilccd that a Spanish-language version nl'thc Palm III organizer is no'v availablc for about US$3')i). It is to be distributed in Spanish-speaking regions of Europe and Latin America. From C o r c x T e c hnologies C o r p .: CardScan Exccuiiv» combines hardware and soltwarc io make adding new or editing existing information easy in H PCs, notebook PCs, and desktop PC p«rsonal information managers (PIMs), The product is designed to help users sharc contact inforination across a network. CardScan Executive sells for US$2')9 and users can purchase a version of ihc product to work with any TWAIN-rompliant flatbed or sheet-led scanner for US$7'). Upgrades are available for previous CardScan users and Corrx also has cut 20 percent oFI the software-only pnce. Prctec Elearonics Corp. has introduced second-generations of a Type I PC Card 56Kpbs Co m p actModem and a C ompactLAN Type I P C C ard w it h a n Extender form Factor. Thc CompaaLAN card directly connects to a nct using 3.3 volts with direct connection of R]45 or BN C connectors on the card extender for wireless networking or Bluetooth capabilities. Pretec claims its CompactLAN card is the smallest Ethernet LAN that uses a Type I CompactFlash Format. The card offers 10 megabitsper second data transfer, more than 500 times faster than a standard serial port connection. The 56K CompartModem card will be video conferencing ready and will support the Y.80 application interface for synchronous H.324 streaming. It supports both the ITU (International Telecommunicarions Union) Y.')0 standard and the 5Ciflex technology, and will work with Windows 95, ')8, NT and CE.

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encing for ISPs, as a software-only application, which i s i n s talled o nt o e x isting Windows NT Web servers, and can allow simultaneous multipoint audio conferencing, and data collaboration over the Internet. The ISP can then deliver this value-added service for small to medium-sized businesses, and/or can host real-time interactive events Intel launches 300 MHz mobile CPU for individual subscribers. SANTA CLARA, CaliF. (NB) — Intel Corp. Nortel Internet Conferencing can be continues to expand its market-oriented accessedover any 133 Mhz PC, with 32 MB microprocessor strategy with the release of a RAM, 5 MB Free hard drive space, and a powerFul 300 M Hz chip For th«mobile comSound Blaster 16-compatible sound card. puting sector. The mobile Pentium II procesMacintosh computers can also share data sor 300 MHz is the most powerful rhip thar files, using version 4.x browsers, but are not Intel has released specifically for the mobile yet c o m patible w i t h the Inte r n et market. Conferencing's voire component. Based on the industry standard benchSome of Internet Conferencing's Features mark Winb«nch')8 CPU32, th e m obile indude: flexible private conference room Pentium II processor 300 MHz represents a options, on-demand or private conference nine percent integer performance improverooms. email scheduling and conference notiment over thc Pcntium I I p r ocessor2CiCi I'ication, online voting and minutes logging, MHz, Intel's previous high-end product for and real-time speaker idcntiliication. ill obiles. http: //www.nortel.corn/internetconferencing A number ol leading mobile computer manufacturers have already released models OnTrack offers free Y2K audit app which utilize the new processor. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (NB) — Qn Track http: //www.intel.corn/mobile/pentiumii/latest.htm Data Recovery announced it is offering PC users a frcc Year 2000 (Y2K) evaluation and ISS unveils enterprise security decision ATLANTA (N B) — Internet Security Systems audit program, downloadable From the com(ISS) has unveiled what its says is the infor- pany's Wcb site. T he OnTrack Y2K Advisor utility i s mation technology industry's flrst enterprise aimed at individual PC users who wish to security decision support application. determine if their PCs are Y2K compliant. If SafeSuite Decisions is billed as the first any problems are detected, the software notiproduct to integrate intrusion and vulnerability detection data and third-party informa- fies the user and offers suggestions for dealing tion (such as from lirewalls), and so automate with thc specilic Year 2000 issue discovered. According to the company, the software the analysis ol enterprise security. The softquickly determines whether a computer's ware is the First in a new range of SafeSuitc Basic Input Output System (BIOS) Firmware Enterprise applications. and Real Time Clock (RTC) will correctly roll Pricing on SafeSuite Decisions depends over from Dec. 31, 1999 to ]an. I, 2000. on the size ol the client's protccred network, Another important test For both thc BIOS but prices start around thc US$25,000 mark. and RTC is leap year recognition. Since 2000 http: //www,iss.net . and 2004 are leap years, problems could surf ace in t h e y ears following th e 2 0 0 0 Labrador sics E-Retriever on intranets BOSTON (NB) — Labrador SoFtware, Inc., rollover — again, the software checks For this has introduced E-Retriever 1.0, software potential problem. http: //www.ontrack.com . designed to simplify Finding inFnrmarion on intranets. What the company terms the First MacAdministrator site launched Intranet Get Engine is being evaluated on corporate intranets at b ot h P arametrics Thc MacAdministrator Web site ofliicially T echnology Corporation. and th e j o i nt launched in September. Thc site features conOlgivy 8r Mather Worldwide/IBM Intranet, tent aimed at Macintosh support proFessionals and includes: news, education, software 0 8' IBM Solution Centre. E-Retriever maps selected E-Word aliases reviews, employment resources, and more. http: //www.macadministrator.corn . to aaual URLs (uniform resource locators) on the intranet, the company says, Instead of searching a lull-text index, and then determining the correct selection returned, the EWord provides a single one-to-one retrieval option. This is what Labrador terms Direct Intelligent Retrieval (DIR). Companies have the ability to choose the URL that will be associated with any E-Word. E-Retriever is i n l i m i ted evaluation release, with a commercial release planned for later this year. http: //www,godog.com

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Voice On 1Vet Coalition relaunched WASHINGTON (NB) — The surge of inter»st in Internet telephony is starting to be F»lt in th» n»twork community, as the Voice on Net (VON) Coalition has now relaunched itself'as an incorporated non-profit organization. Wh»n it was first formed in 1996, the aim of the group was to become an oFFicial moderator for the entire Inlernet Protocol (IP) tel»phony indusrry. According ro officials wirh the newly incorporared coalition, it i» now r»c»iving overwhelming support from computer an d t e lecommunication industry lead»rs. The r»vised target for the coalition, officials say, is to educate regulators, legislators, media and consumers worldwide about VON technologies, products, benefits, and practices. Current p a rticipants i n t h e VON Coalition include Founding members 3Com, Brooktrout Technology, Cisco Systems, Dialogic, Intel, ITXC, M i crosoft, Natural Microsystems, Netspeak, Polycom, Portal Software, Pulver.corn, USA Global Link, and VocalTec. New members also include Clarent, Dynamicsoft. Lucent Technologies, PakNetX, Poprel, Tele Danmark R8rD. Vienna Systems and VJP Calling. According to officials with the group, the VON Coalition is the only organization in existence that educares policymakers about rhe effects oF governmental regulation on the

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Airlines jump in Airlines are enthusiastic about their proprietary online booking sites, primarily because they circumvent having to pay sales commissions to ticket agents, Online booking also Facilitates the accumulation of marketing tools like email lists and client information. Subsidiary benefits to the airlines include savings on printing and postage costs when electronic ticketing (e-ticketing) is used. Of course, the benefit to the traveler is greater command over travel options and, occasionally, cheaper fares. Sarah Fowles, manager of interactive marketing and customer technology for Canadian Airlines International (CAI) is very enthusiastic about her company's Web si te. " As Far as our online bookings go, we' ve exceeded our business objectives considerably,"Fowles says of CAI's experience. "Our major motivation behind setting up a Web site was that the Internet is growing and it's a trend that our customers have voiced they want access this way. They now have access to the airline, the timetable and the booking tool seven days a week and 24 hours a day." According to Fowles, customers not only like having the ability to book tickets online, but the Fact that theii bookings' can be put on hold. They can then transfer that held booking to their regular travel agent and confirm the hooking through them if they want. From the airline's point of view. increased business isn't the ' only benefit. CAI has noted a decline in the number of calls

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Travel. The major consumer-oriented online agencies are Expedia, Travelocity, Preview Travel and Internet Travel Network (ITN). However, where these agencies have become relatively well established in the United States, only ITN has so far had the foresight to venture north of the 49th parallel through an arrangement with Just Vacations, By accessing the Toronto-based Just Vacations site, you can now book airline tickets, arrange rental cars and make hotel reservations listed in Canadian doHars from within Canada. In addition, this allows you the choice of E-tickets (that is, arriving at the airport with your booking ready and no physical ticket being required) or, For the less trusting, a printed ticket heing shipped to you from Just Vacations ro anywhere in Canada. You' ll find ITN's booking engine in the travel section of CANOE (Canadian Online Explorer at hnp://www.canoe.ca). But you won't find the name Just Vacations or ITN when you get there, you have to click on the Travel icon, which automatically leads you there. Lois Shore, ITN's vice-president of marketing explains: "There's been a lot of interest — about 12 percent of our customersare international— so we realized we needed a local fulfillment agency within Canada to take care of' those customers." Paul Murin marketing manager at Just Vacations explains why this Canadian connection is important to Canadian travellers: "It's a matter of where the booking originates from. With ITN and Just Vacations you have Canadian associations and companies involved, Canadian content on the Web sites and it's easier for us, for regulatory reasons, to help the Canadian consumer making the booking. Plus, being licensed in Canada, we have the legal coverage to provide the service." This may be how ITN operates, but how does it actually work? Like this: log on your name and pick a password, go to the home page, choose the reservations tab for air or car or hotel or any combination. IF you select air, for example, you are asked For your departure city, arrival city, dates of travel and Contiiiued on page 79

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HOW agenCieS are faring In general terms, these technological inroads have had consid«rable impact on the travel agency business itself. In the past, a travel agency would share the commission it received from the carrier with its corporate client. In other words, booking with a panicular agency would actually bring money to the corporation. Now, largely because of recent reductions in commission rates paid by the airlines, travel agencies have had to switch to a fee structuremaybe $50per booking, forexample — which means money now Hows in the other direction. Internet travel booking, of course, eliminates that cost to the company. o %hat the technology is doing in terms of travel agencies is actually opening up a new distribution channel f' or travel agents," says Shore. o A{l tickets booked on t h e Internet system are still issued by a certified travel agent, but now their clients can reach them 24 hours a day. The resulting shift in the whole travel agent business model has had to be away from earning commissions on ticket safes toward branching out into all different types of other services in order to stay viable." "t think online booking is actually going to open up the travel industry," says Murin, othe Internet is a great information resource. It's not something to fear. "What we' re working on For consumers, for example, is being able to provide complete online vacation hooking packages," he

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WDM/DWDM technologies that the report profiles include: Lucent Technologies, Ciena, Cambrian, Pirelli, Nortel, Alcatel, Fujitsu, NEC, Ericsson, Siemens, and Hitachi. Looking ahead, the report predicts advances in optical technology such as advanced swirch-

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Canadian banks' technology spending surveyed By Martin Stone TORONTO ( NB) — A report released in mid September shows that 92 percent oF Canadian financial institutions find that ecommerce is forcing them to change the way they interact with their customers. According to Toronto-based business consultants Ernst 8c Young's Seventh Annual Special Report on Banking and Technology, Canadian financial institutions spent nine percent of total information technology (IT) budgets on e-commerce, in contrast to the three percent indicated by global respondent to the study. By 2001, this gap will narrow, as global participants spend 14 percent and Canadian respondents project spending 15 percent of their total IT budget on e-commerce, the study shows. "It appears that the Canadian respondents are out oF the gates faster when it comes to spending on e-commerce, as they believe it will have significant benefits to the customer and financial institutions. However, along with their global counterparts, Canadian financial institutions are unclear of how to clearly articulate and capture those financial benefits," says Ali Hamza, partner with Ernst 8t: Young's Financial Services practice. Hamza said the study is not audited for error factor, but is instead intended to show trends. The report surveyed more than 100 financial institutions including banks, mutual funds, brokerage firms and insurance companies in 26 countries including the United States, Canada, Europe, South Africa, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. A total oF 15 Canadian financial institutions were surveyed. The survey indicates that seamless links to the customer will continue to expand as demonstrated by growing emphasis on the Internet, ATMs (automatic teller machines)

institutions say, adding they hope e-commerce will make banking more convenient. Hamza said that Europe leads the trend in retention, while Canada and the U.S. are adopting a slightly more aggressive approach to developing new customers and new markets. Other survey highlights include a 71 percent increase in point of sale, specifically debit card, transactions and indications that 75 percent oF respondems intend to provide customer accessto products and services of other institutions through their channels. A full 70 percent of respondents plan to use e-commerce to support bill presentment, opening ofaccounts and creditcard services by 2001 in addition to loans, brokerage functions, mortgages, account administration, statement review, money transfer and bill payments. The study states that Canadians will have increased access to ATMs as the proportion of "non-branch" ATMs increases from 26

percent to 32 percent and the total overall number of ATMs grows. One interesting survey result notes 80 percent of respondents will adopt ATM strategies that will include execution of more sophisticated transactions and more use/integration with slnart card technologies over the next three years. Hamza said, "Smart cards are heing looked at right now but are in the early stages. Significant penetration in the U.S. and Canada is still a Few years away. The U.S. is lagging behind Europe and Canada in smart card start-up." Canadian respondents said they intend to establish more i n formation k i osks, machines from which custome'rs can read such details as account balances, while 38 percent in th e U .S. and 47 percent in Canada will remodel branches. Sixty-two percent of the institutions sampled cited customer-relationship managernent as one of their top three goals. .and telephone service centers. One of thekey.challenges of e-commerce Expected transaction volume changes dur- is to provide consistent information to the ing the next three years in Canada include a customer through all delivery channels. significant 374 percent increase in telephone Eighty-five percent of Canadian participants service centre transactions, a 292 percent believe that they can do this whereas, only 44 increase in transactions through PC/Internet, percent in the U.S. believe that they can proand a 19 percent increase in ATM transac- vide this service, the survey reveals. tions, the report contends. Hamza pointed In an attempt to retain the customer, data out that presently the branch office is the warehousing — a technology to capture all dominantchannel of customer service. information about customers and their transThe study also shows that in Canada, 78 actions — is moving to the front office where percent of report participants indicated that it can be actively used by 77 percent of ' products delivered through electronic chan- respondents to keep customers' business. nels will be less expensive for the consumer "Canadian banks recognize that today' s than through other channels. In contrast, 70 time-starved customer d emands easier percent of the U.S. respondents did not have access," says Hamza. a pricing strategy for e-commerce. The report is being distributed to finanCustomer retention remains the number cial institutions but is not generally available one goal of e-commerce globally, financial to the public, Hamza said. 0

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If you have purchased a computer in the last year it probably has a USB-enabled motherboard. In some cases, like the latest Dell and Compaq computers I am currently reviewing, the unit will have USB plugs in the back of the case. You will recognize them by their unique shape. USB ports are small and rectangular, slightly wider than and about half the height of an RJ-11 phone jack. If you do not have such plugs on your computer you may still have a motherboard capable of supporting USB. In late 1996 and most of 1997 many motherboards needed only the external connector to be added to make them USB operational. You can check this by looking in your BIOS for a USB option. If it is supported a computer retailer can probably sell you the connector. If it isn't supported, you may need to upgrade the BIOS to gain this ability. This could mean downloading a small

consumeis to use Windows 98 or the iMac. Our three systems were a PC clone with a 200 MHz Pentium MMX processor with an Entrega two-port USB card; a Dell XPS with

a 233 MHz Pentium II processor; and a Cyrix 233 MHz MediaGX-powered notebook, the Compaq Presario 1230. The Dell and the Compaq came pre-configured with USB ports. We installed and operated the following peripherals: the ColorShot Photo Printer from Polaroid; the SideWinder Precision Pro (USB compatible) from Microsoft; and a P ageScan USB s c anner f r o m S t o r m

Technology. The results? Very few problems. In most

cases the products plugged into the ports or hub without difficulties. When you plug in a USB device for the first time Windows

98 displays a dialogue box naming the product. It t hen asks you to i nsert the Windows 98 CD-ROM. You click "Okay" and the screen returns to normal. No fuss, no problems, no reboot. It is true that you may want, or need, to install software for the devices and that software may, or may not, need to reboot the machine, but it is still a great feeling to just plug it in and go.

When youunplug the device nothing happens. When you plug it back in, the cursor turns to an hourglass for a few seconds and that's it. Simple. This is how computing should be. .We plugged the scanner, the joystick and the photo printer into the USB plug on the back of each machine as wellas into an Entrega hub attached to each machine. On the Dell, everything was rock solid. It didn' t matter what order we plugged the devices in,

there were no problems. On the Compaq

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Presario laptop everything was fine if we first connectedthe hub and then each device. However, if we connected all three products to the hub and then plugged it in, we encountered a va r i et y o f p ro b l ems. Sometimes the pointing device (a touchpad)

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ucts are now amving. Everything is in place before being connected to the laptop. The for a relatively smooth transition. You won' t problem was averted by plugging in the hub be buying a new computer without the old first and then the scanner. A similar situation arose on the desktop

computer. Everything worked fine except time cussing behind a tangle of cords. when we used the scanner through the Our experience indicates that there are Entrega hub. When the scanner passed still some problems to be ironed out. It may through the hub, the scanner software would either freeze or fail to recognize that some-

be that non-USB PCI computers have more

problems than newer machines when it thing was in the scanner, ready to be scanned. comes to USB devices. It is interesting to note When the hub was attached to the computer that our problems on two completely differwith the scanner already connected, it hung ent machines both affected the mouse. the computer completely, Even in the best

Overall, the benefits of USB far outweigh

case the scanner would cause the computer's some small inconsistencies. In fact, the transtandard serial mouse to intermittently get stuck It is unclear whether the problems were caused by the computer, the scanner, its software, the PCI-USB card or the hub.

Where it stands

Sohmet — 1997

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Win95 system. We have a 233 MHz Pentium machine with 64 MB of memory and 4.5 GB y brother Nathan and I work together of disk space. We use System on various computing projects, shar- Commander to load copies ing equipment and a small network, of different operating but most importantly, sharing insights on how systems into separate to get the beasts that computers can sometimes disk partitions: • 700 MB — Windows be to behave according to the manual. 95 test OS As it happens, Nathan and I set off roughly at the same time on the same journey — to • 800 MB — Windows 95 real working OS upgrade from Windows 95 to Windows 98. • 1,000 MB — Win NT 4 Our reasons roughly coincided: • 1,000MB — RedHat • to get the savings in disk storage of FAT32 Linux 5.0 over FAT16; • to get faster start up times for Windows programs; • 1,000 MB — DOS 6.0 • to get support for the USB (universal serial The first partition was used bus) since we attach a lot of peripherals to by Nathan to do his test instalL He reinstalled our systems. a clean copy of Win95 into the partition. The We had some surprises, both unpleasant following emails were received (note: Nathan and pleasant. On the unpleasant side, some of refers to me asJack): the upgrades took much longer than we expected. Windows 98, unlike the new Microsoft July9, 11:45p.m.: Office 98 for Mac, is not a simple one+lick Jack, upgrade/install. Be prepared for some possible Win98 will NOT install over a brand new (perextra hours of work, particularly if you are fectly fine) Win95 install! It keeps giving me a upgrading over an existing Windows 95 system. stupid error message ... something to do with 8 On the pleasant side we are happy to report and 3 file names with numbering.... So how do that with some extra effort we achieved both we get support fiom Microsoft on how to fix the the disk space savings and speed-up of program problem? I' ll send you more details on the message load times that were as promised by Microsoft. and wait for your advice on how to proceed.

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And also I have Device Conflicts under the . July 10 1:05a.m.: Advanced Power Management device.Another curious thing is that MS-Paint '.bmp files never Jack, show that they belong to MS-Paint (this started Here is the error message. Now if I try to install from my existing when I did the Win95 test install). PVindows] 95 drive (which has IEv4) it works Nathan fine. However on a new [Windows] 95 drive I advised Nathan that the new Win95 (without FEv4)this message comes up. So, I'm install may have removed the Registry associgoing to try installing IEv4 and then seeif the messagegoes away. ation of .bmp files with Paintbrush. I also Nathan asked if he felt ready to do the "real" Win95 to Win98 upgrade. To which I received this Which was followed by: somewhat elliptic email: July 10, 11:43 a.m.:

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The other ideas showed up: In the meantime, I have gotten around the probIefn by doing a clean install. But this is NOT reasonablefor everyone to do! July 10, 9:49 a.m.: Nathan Jack,

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Next morning, the buzzer went off ... BZZKi2T. My old DOS programs did reload; they just failed to work in FAT32. Ugghhly. A quick call t o t h e DOS software vendor brought th e f o l l owing solution — reload Win98 but choose the FAT16 rather than default FAT32 option on install. Well, 200 MB worth of disk space later (reverting to FAT16 chews up disk space with extra plump sector sizes, especially when

your disk drives exceed 1 GB in capacity), WordPerfect, Netscape, Visual'Basic and others still loaded just as fast as ever as the second install of Win98 proceeded as smoothly as thefirst.

Conclusion So Microsoft again delivers on its Windows promises. If it would clean up the registry maintenance and .DLL conflict problems, this version would move from a being a $90

ing files 0io progress bar). I assmne it had to do with a lack of sufficient disk space. It required 100 MB and liad approx. 130 MB available (I can't recall the precise nuinber now). Anyway, I removed some old prograius before restarting the ]Windows] 98 upgrade aiid had 305 MB free before the install and 226 MB afterwards. Now the ouly reinaining glitches (so far) are: * [Windows] 9S to 98 upgrade does not fix modem problem; modem works but does not show correctcoimection speed (same problem

Win 95 had). ' TlieAPM devicedrivershows an error,haven't yet tried playing with the BIOS settings for APM (Arlvanced Power Manageinent). That is all for now... this is comiiig to you from the newly upgraded [Windows] 95 98 drive. Win98 connects to the Internet — will test iietwork card later toiiight. Nathan

"it depends" upgrade to a must have. But being able to use the USB (universal serial jack,

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bus) may have me chirping a happier tune in Probleiu-with modem was due to old Win95 the near future. modem driver still in the system. I deleted the old In the meantime, potential upgraders are m odem andtheWin98 modern driver workspercautioned: if you get Wln98 pre-installed fectly and shows the actual connection speed you will have smooth sailing, but if you need properly. to upgrade from Wln95 or Wln3,x, be pre- I don't know why Win98 didn't deiete the other pared to spend more than a half hour getting modein... but heck ifI knew tliat I'd be working all the bells and whistles working. for Microsloth. Nathan

Nathan's email: director's cut jack, OK, so this time the upgrade finished. The first time the upgrade stopped at the first stage of copy-

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jack, The VSB driver problem has been fixed on the [Windows] 95 to 98 drive. It was a simple matter of deleting the existing driver aml asking Win98 to look for new hardware. It detected the USB device and installed the nec-

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jack, This is to confirm that the sounil card definite)y is louder when I boot in NT thaii in 98. Some how the new yainaha drivers in 98 iruist cut the sound level... seems bizane to ine. Natliail

jack, upgmde (see below), The[Windows] 95 clean A minor thiiig I noticed... is that the sound card install liad no probleui with this device driver.SO sounds di fferent iiow with Win98 (both installs). I think it iuaybe due the to Wi n95 device driver It is quieter (requi res iiiore vohune at the speaker gettingin the way of the Win98 driver. to make the same ainomit of noise) and the

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jack, There are several ways in which the Win98 upgradedoes not work as well as the clean install, here are a couple: * the Win95 registry is copied and of course if yoir installed and uniristalled software, the Win98 registry ends up finding soine of your old entries. "for exainple, when using Win95 I had installed IE v4 active desktop, made soiue customizations and then de-installed IE v4 and reinstalled it witiiout the active desktop. Well when Win98 installed it used the (imknown to me) still preseiit customizations froui the de-installed active desktop! Which meant it had icons on the Active Desktop mini Taskbar that pointed to items that . no longer existed! Not a luige pain in the butt, however, it would confuse the average user. I si iuply deleted the outdated icons (no big deal). I will send other examples of the di ffereiices as I note thein, Nathan

jack, So the Fat32 conversion is not possible right now, here are tlie facts: ' ran Fat32 converter anrl it reboots the PC into DOS mode to start tlie conversion process. ' tlie first attempt failed (fmze) at the exit from Win98 blank screen (I left it there. overnight). Rebooted aiid tried again. ' 2nd attempt at conversion rebooted into DOS mode without auy probleiu but upon restarting Win98 it gave a waniing notice (see below) that indicated that you shoiild not install Fat32 unless you have SC (Systein Comiuander) version 3.09 (we have SC v3.07). So I figiire it is a no go... either way it seems to imply that you are to iiniiistall SC. Do the conversion and then reinstall SC (not something I want to do as I'm not sure I will regain control of all tlie other partitions; ie: NT, Limix, [Windows] 98 clean, etc). Nathan

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users alike who like to push pixels very, very fast. Matrox's G200 manages only about half 5 N that at 100 mpps. T EL. K41B 9 2 $ 8 - 1 $ 8 8 H LX GN B M2 S B - 1 8 8 8 m Tl claims its Rage 128 graphics accelerThe Rage 128 comes in two flavors, the . SWN1 $96NFBIRRBN SBT NORTBB YORK rrDRI CIIIDINLe ator — which is due to ship to OEM and Rage 128 GL (a reference to the full OpenGL 2 sLoclc NonTn oF Lswsnsncs, oFFoseT seeslnsms DWFST~QQ DDIIDN~~ R U MRB cn outlets in November — is the installable client driver the company says will Ikie VeleNi el Iwle hStt/IIIIC hIBIINBM llltelPnltium 166 QQN world'sretail fastest graphics accelerator, delivering ship with the product) and the Rage 128 VR Intel Celeynn300 Intel I e l e eon 24ted6 SI941 e IlltelPentflim2Ng a four-fold improvement in overall perfor- (virtual reality). IS'S VdeA MenilernMRnmXRI u/l)MA llid, ACFRIS' MexilewdIM 317Ram,430 lunMA II l t i l llll53 mance, compared to the company's previous Aside from the VR chip's lower price, the ACER/ASIIS/IIASI2kM/Rewed,yanasom cszxe 'n Inlet I,X/TXM/Reset?ix('.0 ROM,1.44Fl)I),li/R l4lite!PCl " S.VOA Mmlee 'l2M Re m1.7leit in ACERSSKVoice FaxModem,1.44FRD,Mone 55K VoicFa e nModem, ld Ril SendCwi, Mesc Pcnlinm top-of-the-line chip, the Rage Pro. main difference between the chips is that the SI2KM//Rwmtzin& RI)M „I'.1.6K VoimFaxMeiwn, 16BI Scend(a/i Indeed, the numbers are impressive. In former is a full 128-bit engine, while the URI A4 Floppy, 64Ril Pll Videorteel, both 2D and 3D benchmarks, the Rage Pro is still a 128-bit processor internally — uses a 64Intel Pentium 23:459 W SOWSpskwe, 1%wineSKeyReewd,neeem demonstrably faster than all competitors, bit external interface. Other features of both K o ee~3o 12 7 5 AMD K 6 - I I - 3013 S'il P 25 easily beating 3Dfx's Uoodoo2 in Winbench Rage 128 chips include: AI FR17'Monitnr64M snRsee64(i ti/17 tldd BEItVttlne Hi/It-Kntl / F ' " ' 2 " 3884ll6=>M Q6S QM SQS 98 3D results (the Rage 128 rates 1600, while • eight million transistors RR/".3 0" " / R' .25micron fabrication the Voodoo2 scores 1300). The 2D perforPICllin=>Slit $I45 olin $4I5 Pen el eeeee 86 'mso S RI2WD2 w$ SR AWE redsoundrmd,IZOW Spcekem • mance is equally impressive, as benchmark superscalar renderingengine n E E ' ~ < < '%>>>w ACFRIA,ATISM317FR()AIIPyidcot'sd Pill/I33=>SI5 Q35 Q78 $4$5 integral hardware support for DVDand Digital TV scores of 225 beat those of top competitors im WITH 3 Y tsbowr B 1To 2 YMmniilaoture Parts Vvbe rrwrdt/ ' Price AlreaeTy3% Cash Oiscounteef sw Matrox (222) and Riva TNT (220). ATI says • hardware support for vertex arrays ] [ c a l i J I weonls|t1 [ VIQNNND j tSOIIINICRNN 4eee 30 pin Feeem SUBlnbDIPentiln133 N6 1 .7 GB $ 1 4 5 1MPCI From $2$ 16 B I T From SIC the Rage 128 is a full 25 percent faster than • 16-bit color or 32-bit true color rendering $39 Intel Pentftan 166 S115 3.2 Fuji/IAID$1 95 B3 4M 3D From$49 SB16 • fog and fog table support 32M From $59 s/8 AwE64 $65 Intel's i740. 4m 30Seo 4.3 WD/Fuji $215 ATI 32M Qp Free/en $BB I ntel 200 mnw $165 • alpha blending, vertex and 1-based fog, video texATI BmAGP$102 I pyinteraSCnnnei At the late-August launch, ATI featured 6.4 VVD/Fuji $259 ATI Bm E'aport $150 Printer From $1 45 64m SI3 Feenm$125 IRIMI 233 mlTIX S185 8.4 Msxtor . $299 4M AB lee demonstrationsof Rage 128's advanced capatures, texture lighting VV$185 ScmeewrBBOOdpi oil-10N ' J [ ' MSITOO em AB lee W-P/o $325 30bit Colour $89 bilities, including single-pass multitexturing, • single clock biiinear and triiinear texture filtering 24 x From $59 14" SVGA S1E6 ¹oae .I ( aah aeeeal l high-performance ZD and 3D, plus previews and texture compositing Creative OVm KR $299 1P SVGA S1& 33.6K $45 PeregumMin SFD zipOrb/wr$105 of next-generation graphics technologies true perspective MIP-mapped texturing with chroCO-W Md 12/BBMS 17 Flom $345 56 K v90 From $60 Intel TX From 95 LS 120 FDO $125 PmnmsoneSemiCO-W4N 17 Aoer Fram S365 Snk Acer From $70 1tmmhz IUNB $119 Undmo Conference i ncluding Microsoft Direct X 7 . 0 a n d ma-keysupport with Scsi Card $429 1CpQybeytBW IOnS775 56K USR v90 $119 Pll M/8 From $125 Kil Fmem$175 • vertex and 1-based reflections, shadows, spotChromeffects. lights, 1.00 biasing • hidden surface removal using 16-, 24-, or 32-bit 1-buffering • dual texel pipe delivering two pixels per clock

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textured objects, but can cause text to become fuzzy. The company, however does not agree that the lack of anisotropic filtering is significant. Niles Burbank, product manager of ATI's component marketing department, said, "it' s a check-box on a list, not a feature that we think users are going to miss. Some of our competitors say they' re providing the feature, but at what quality? We' re focusing on the features that pay off in performance." Tom Pabst, of the popular Tom's Hardware Web site, agreed. "The performance hit is too great," said Pabst. "I don't think many people want to pay that kind of penalty." The Rage 128's lack of support for texture compression is less of a problem, with plenty of memory on-board and the ability to pull from system memory at any time, allowing virtually unlimited textures anyway. In fact, ATI says no games exist that won't display correctly due to this limitation. And, says the

in Trnainator2. Also impressive was a demo of a graphics engine called Any World that depicted realtime lighting effects such as specular effects, laser lights, explosions, lend flares and environmental light mapping in a real-time walkthrough of a 3D room. Later, Micr o sof t demo n strated Chromeffects and DirectX, and a number of games, including Quake 2, were shown zipping along at frame rates sure to make Voodoo2 fans jealous, Composite video and SVHS out are standard features on the two consumer cards. As well, the cards offer VFC/AMC connectors for adding optional multimedia enhancements such as TV tuner and video capture capabilities. ATl says OEM manufacturers using the

powered by a Q u adrant-supplied MPEG encoder and Microsoft's DirectShow software running on a host. The MPEG stream, he said, can be delivered by antenna, cable, or disk. The Rage 128, ATI claims, is the first chip to fully support digital TV. The Microsoft rep explained it handles video at the so-called HDO decode quality level. As ADSL, satellite, ATM, MDS and other high-bandwidth pipes become widely available, digital TV is likely to become a viable alternative to traditional analog broadcasting. And, of course, Microsoft wants a piece of that. 0

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Construction window of previous versions with a more intuitive TimeLine window. It is used to assemble and edit various video, audio and transition clips that you can drag from the Project window and drop onto various tracks. Anyone who has used software such as Macromedia Director or various 3D rendering packages with animation features will notice the interface similarities. Premiere gives you the freedom to experiment by allowing you to build up to 99 video tracks, 99 audio tracks, while supporting up to

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A table in a table may not be a table after all Woe betide the Web author who does not end a table properly, as viewers using a Netscape browser may find themselves looking at a blank Web page! A basic table in HTML is made up of three sets of tags: the <TABLE> tag, the <TR> (table row) tag, and the individual <TD> (table data) fags. With these three tags you can create a basic table, much like this: <TABLE> <TR> <TD>cel 1</TD> </TR> </TABLE> As you can see, each of these tags have a beginning (<TD>) and end tag (</TD>). Both internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator are pretty forgiving if you leave out an end-tag or two. For example, the following code will display a complete table in Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator (versions 3.0 and higher): <TABLE> <TR> <TD>cel1 </TABLE> When the browsers find the end <fl'ABLE> tag, it automatically assumes that the missing <fTD></TR> tags should bethere, and acts as though they were. Problem is, if you take off the final </TABLE> tag as well, you will get a blank page when viewed through Netscape Navigator. This may not seem a serious issue — simply make sure you "close" all of your tables off properly. But where it is not so simple is on sites that use

a lot of tables — especially imbedded tables —in order to arrange things. As an example of this, take a look at the following code: <TABLE> <TR> <TD> <TABLE> <TR> <TD>cell 1</TD> </TR> </TABLE> </TD> <TD> <TABLE> <TR> <TD>cell 2</TD> </TR> </TABLE> This code will display properly in Internet Explorer, but will give you a blank screen when seen in Netscape. What's happening here is that there are in fact three tables started, but only two (the ones containing "cell I" and "cell 2") are closed, leaving one table dangling. The result: a blank page. Chances are if you always check your code in Netscape you will catch this mistake before you put it up on the Web site. But if you only use internet Explorer, which is more forgiving, you may not notice the problem until someone viewing your page in Netscape points out the problem to you. I' ve seen this basic problem happen time and time again on both amateur and professional Web sites. Gotcha!

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is month we continue our look at spreadsheet functions and introduce some functions that make choices for you. We' ll also show you how to create a custom function for your own calculations.

uIF(C4<100, 10,'I 5) The formula tests to see if the value in cell C4 is less than 100, if it is then the number 10 will appear in cell D4, if not then the number 15 will appear. Test this formula by typing it into cell D4 and then place different numbers in cell C4 and see how the value in cell D4 changes depending on the value in cell C4. Using a formula like this allows you to create a worksheet that completes tasks and autornatically lessens the possibility of errors. If you were to enter the shipping charge manually then every change to the value of an order would require you to check the shipping price. However, if you use this function whenever you make a change to the worksheet the program recalculates automatically and the shipping price will never be wrong.

IHalting choices Sometimes you need to make a calculation for one set of circumstances and another for a different set. Consider a mail order company that charges $10 for shipping items valued at under $100 and $15 for shipping all items over that amount. You could calculate each manually or let the IF function do ail the work. The syntax of an IF function is:

=IF(logical test, value orcalculation to useif test is true, value orcalculation to use iftest is false) A logical test is one that can only be answered true/false or yes/no. For example "Is today Monday?" is a logical test as the answer is either yes or no. However, "What day is it?" is not as there are seven possible answers. Our mail order company has a spreadsheet, which stores the total value of an order in column C and has a function in column D to calculate the shipping. This is the formula in cell

lglultiple choice If you only need to choose between two options, then a simple IF function is your best choice. Where there are more choices you can "nest" IF functions inside each other, which is rather like the spreadsheet equivalent of Russian

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should be 125: =SellingPrice(100,25%) Step 6: Hide the file Personal. xls by making the file active (select it) an d select Window, Hide. When you exit Excel you' ll be asked if you want to save the changes you have made to Personal. xls. To save the functions so they are available whenever you open Excel, answer Yes.

How it worhs The function SellingPrice takes two "arguments" or values from the worksheet. The values are those for the CostPrice and the MarkUp percentage. These are used to calculate the Sellingprice,

SeliingPrice= CoslPrice (1 + MarkUp) So, if we have an item we buy for $100 and want to calculate the selling price if we mark it up by 25 percent the function will need to make this calculation:

which is then returned to the worksheet. When you employ any user-defined function you must provide the arguments in the order in which they appear in the first line of the function. So the syntax of your userdefined function is:

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business was being delivered to the U.S. Congress.

I glanced up at the proceedings from time to time,

as I wrote articles on my laptop. I watched the CNN journalists watching their

computer screens as the Starr Report was down-

loaded from the government's Web site, The smutty details of the American president's wretched secret life — as

moral authority of the world's most

Private investigators studied the

powerful governmen, to tell other computerized video rental records people what they could see or say of. Robert Bork, a nominee for a online, Supreme Court justiceship (the The official Web site of the U.S. bloodhounds found he liked old Congress belatedly joined the hun- Cary Grant movies — they had to dreds of private Web sites look elsewhere for grounds to peck that have been laughing at Clinton's escapades over the last several years. In the democracies of the West, whenever we

come across evidence of governm ent wrongdoing occurring behind closed doors, there's an immedi-

him to death).

Anyone who is considering a career in politics has to assume that every unfavorable act, or deed, or word, or allegation associated with his or her life wgl become public property, as ammunition to be used against them. Combine that new reality with the ruthless habits of

Why would any sane person go into politics, in the age of electronic glass houses? The best and the worst potential of the Internet was demonstrated with cruelest efficiency. No need to wait for newspapers or magazines or TV newscasts to filter the information. Just save the entire report to

your hard drive, and use the search function in Microsoft Word to go s traight to t h e p arts wit h t h e

naughty words. Almost immediately, many technology commentators made the point that the same Congress that tried, and failed, to legislate "decency" on the Internet had, with indecent haste, plastered the most degrading pile of dirty private laun-

carried on a secret affair for several years, until Hyde's wife found out about it. The fact that the events d escribed happened back in t h e 1960s, and seemed to have no particular current political or legal significance, didn't seem to matter

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privacy begin? Apparently, there is no longer any division between "job related" and "private." In an age

when we increasingly leave electronic footprints everywhere we go,

the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal, the private lives of public figures are no longer off limits." The lowest standards of political hatchet job jour-

nalism, it seems, are now the norm for online reporting. Nice to know.

Punishingfree speech on the Internet: pay hade, haclrer style

story ran, as a mail-bomber working through an Eastern European address deposited thousands of rude messages in a Salon mailbox.

b e f r ee. becomes something to avoid at aiI

But where does politics end, and

have changed the rules. In the brave new world that has been created by

In a further twist to the tale, Salon also claimed its Web site w as "hacked" shortly after the Hyde

ate cry for transparency in American-style, attack-dog politics, government proceedings. and public service increasingly

recounted by Monica Lewinsky and Elected representatives must be costs. other grand jury witnesses and com- accountable. The public has a right piled by independent counsel Ken to know. Starr — were distributed direct from the heart of the American democratic system for the amusement and titillation of m i llions across the entire wired world.

revealed as an adulterer and home wrecker by the online magazine Salon (http//www.saloomagazlne.corn). According to the betrayed husband of Hyde's former mistress, Hyde had

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House a year ago could be grist for

with. So where does this all leave us? Well, in spite of being generally

accepted by the American public as an okay president, Clinton is now

the political mill„ then so could any

personally revealed as a hollow politician's "indiscretions," whenev- man, a terrible friend, a betrayer, a er or however they occurred. For their own part, the Salon editors went to great lengths to justify their actions in "outing" Hyde, They claimed in an online editorial that Salon was not engaging in a tit for tat retaliation against Clinton's enemies, but rather just doing its job, according to the new rules of the late 1990s.

pathetic, obsessive creature hiding behind a fake face, fake hair, fake smile, .fake sincerity. The Internet has played a role in creating the media monster that threatens to devour the elected leader of the U.S. Did I " need" to k now about IIIe president asIab rat — Saloneditorial Clinton's secret life? Maybe. Did I lfBW%5A$NIRIWL. CSKIN ~ PI C I LNP ~ I I want to? Not really. One unintendT TOun 80LT . h CE888 LeeiaLT aneaig888 88 88 As ye sovr, so shall ye reap ed consequence of the new inforOT 88 I8888W Ot 88I TOTT88888e. Ironically, those Republican party Defensively, Salon denied being mation agemay be that we end up %88 a A888ea Wia Tbe8888TB ~ TEE ST88888 m eare EIE I88T SI8888%ih 88I88er or politicians who most eagerly seek to a "pawn of the White House" (in knowing a lot more on certain sub88eSaimrI88 8888KI, tuahal sadaTTTBEmr 888 m 888. 88nQBT888 Ea 88I8 oI amca88T Ibe bring their enemies' private mis- spite of their original tipster having jects than we ever wanted to. In of6aak8888 888T ESSilS88 CI888A aery C8LTla ie88888T IWe 88 adaBET Eova 8 8888IIT, 88T 8NT deeds to light are unhappy to find been an avowed Democratic loyalist the future, will we have the wisdom the same loss of privacy coming who claimed to have tried unsuc- to know when to look through our technology is a factor in causing the back tohaunt them. cessfully to peddle the Hyde story to new window into other people' s notion of privacy to become posiA few days after voting to release many other media outlets and polit- private lives, and when not to? Will tively quaint. the Starr Report on Clinton's sins, ical organizations), but then went we really have any choice in the Ever since the destruction of Republican Henry Hyde w as on to say that "Clinton's enemies matter? CI Richard Nixon in the early 1970s, due to his own illegal actions and 8Iu'TT ATTTt8S SLAT%.. T fHIblk'll LTURMOFF the zeal of the pack that hunted him ILII9T r91LilII' MF5/IIV NGItI/ HXt TINCT TDTWM OFF THS'CQNPQTFRANP60 5CN'XIII -SAYER PROTER T down (induding a young Hillary LI/OMRQRRE%R AN& TO SfD, /rIY /t/O4nVR, /TAIS Clinton), the gloves have been off Mwo%P! RSPIICFS 51RE55 CAU5$D where politicians are concerned. HII' PROLCW6FPEXPOSE Nixon's own fetish for electronically S IRRITATIN& fA5fR5! recording his White House converjJ

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